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Three honest players decide to play a game of cards with a 36-card deck over the phone.
They need to deal the whole deck of cards in 3 equal parts, with the cards "face down". How can they do that? |
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This isn't specified clearly enough.
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Sorry, I must be stupid, but I have absolutely no clue what you're asking?
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Hang up and get two hookers and an eight ball.
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go fish
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Sorry, I must be stupid, but I have absolutely no clue what you're asking? [/ QUOTE ] I meant, how do they play the game while on the phone? |
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Whats so confusing? Hes asking how they can shuffle and distribute the cards so that each person only knows the cards they are personally dealt.
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Whats so confusing? Hes asking how they can shuffle and distribute the cards so that each person only knows the cards they are personally dealt. [/ QUOTE ] This is indeed what I was asking. The deal should be random of course. |
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Three honest players decide to play a game of cards with a 36-card deck over the phone. They need to deal the whole deck of cards in 3 equal parts, with the cards "face down". How can they do that? [/ QUOTE ] is this before or after the advent of camera/video phones? |
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[ QUOTE ] Whats so confusing? Hes asking how they can shuffle and distribute the cards so that each person only knows the cards they are personally dealt. [/ QUOTE ] This is indeed what I was asking. The deal should be random of course. [/ QUOTE ] My shot at it in white: <font color="white">Have each player take a fresh unshuffled deck of cards and lay them out on a numbered grid from 1-52. One player generates a sequence of random simple permutations that he instructs the other players to duplicate. For example, exchange the 12th card on the grid with the 27th card. After a few thousand such permutations the 3 decks will be identically randomly shuffled with the complexity high enough so that noone can follow any card through the process to predict where any of them are. One player takes the top cards, one the ones after that, and the third the ones after that. They are all honest so noone looks at cards he isn't dealt. </font> PairTheBoard |
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